Lit Hub Daily: On the Problem(s) of the Writing Residency Industrial Complex

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“We are the chosen black artists, taking up temporary residency in places where white people can afford to slow down, breathe, stay for good.” Jill Louise Busby on the problem(s) of the writing residency industrial complex. | Lit Hub

Annabel Abbs considers the legacy of women hikers who blazed their own trails, and the landscapes that shaped them. | Lit Hub Nature

On the young Indigenous basketball players who challenged colonial hegemony in Montana—and became world champions. | Lit Hub Sports

How Amanita Muscaria, the real-life mushroom we know from Disney movies, earned its fame. | Lit Hub Nature

Jemma Wadham recounts an expedition across the “mysterious, inhospitable white void” of Antarctica. | Lit Hub Travel

“The higher one evinces traits stereotypically associated with femininity, the greater one’s chances of ending up with a personality disorder.” Jonathan Foiles on what we get wrong about BPD. | Lit Hub Health

Brandon Taylor on Sally Rooney, Dale Peck on Andrew Sullivan, Frank Guan on Jonathan Franzen, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks

“It was accepted wisdom back then that nothing could kill book sales quicker than stringing together the words Northern and Ireland.” Stuart Neville on regionalism, publishing, and standing up to censorship. | CrimeReads

WATCH: Christopher Sorrentino on loving and losing a difficult parent • Philip Stephens on Britain’s struggle to reconcile its waning power with its past glory. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

“The deeper you go you start to wonder if he’s actually gaslighting himself.” Dale Peck considers Andrew Sullivan’s body of work. | The Baffler

“It will hate bunk.” Read The New Yorker’s original prospectus. | Gothamist

“It’s easier to talk about a difficult topic if you talk about it in the context of a book.” Beloved librarian Nancy Pearl has received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award. | Library Journal

Joy Harjo discusses her new memoir, Native history, and her childhood reading habits. | NPR

Why are news reporters so skilled at writing crime novels? | Inside Hook

As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 approaches, new books are taking stock of geopolitical events since then. | Christian Science Monitor

These ten books take on long-distance relationships. | The Guardian

Morgan Parker on why The Faculty is the perfect allegory for life
in America, on Open Form. 

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Maggie Nelson on criticism, intentionality, and pain,
on The Maris Review. 

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Brigid Hughes and Yiyun Li talk about retweeting a Russian classic,
on Fiction/Non/Fiction. 

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Leigh Stein on archiving the cultural moments we shared during the (ongoing) pandemic, on Otherppl. 

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Anna Sebba recounts the early days of Ethel Rosenberg,
on Just the Right Book. 

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On Book Dreams, Bryan Christy on exposing corruption through journalism—and spy thrillers.

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 James and Al delve into the Second Sino-Japanese War,
on We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

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